Frozen In Memory: Navy Medicine And Korea, 1950-1953

For better or worse, Americans have defined military medicine during the Korean War by a novel, a movie, and a long running TV series. But was the Korean War really like M*A*S*H? It was a ferocious war fought in extreme weather conditions, in rugged hilltop trenches, thorugh bombed-out villages and towns, and on land, at sea, and in the air. The war also introduced life-saving innovations, such as helicopters swiftly airlifting wounded soldiers from the battlefield to medical care, and the first large-scale wartime use of antibiotics. Jan K. Herman, author of Battle Station Sick Bay: Navy Medicine in World War II, has assembled a remarkable collection of oral histories from Navy doctors, corpsmen, nurses and patients, bringing to life their war in Korea.